So I've been a writer for a long time, but I've been alive for a little more than that [but not too much more than that], and what I'm saying is that I've spent an awful lot of time being a kid thinking it would be super fun and cool to write a book someday, and now that someday is here, I'm sort of bummed out because it's like, well, what now?
The thing is writing is so lonely, you know? My art friends can all get together and do art-friend things and talk about art contests and art galleries and art things. My sports friends can do sportsy things and scrimmage and stuff, my music friends can all do music things and start bands and make some cool music, my theater friends and I can all do theater-ey things like plays and festivals, and this is all awesome and I like when people can come together and make things and support the things of their friends and other people. But for me, writing has always been solitary. This is half a good thing, and my friends might say "that idea is so fun omg so fun wow so great" but the trouble is they're my friends, they're not writers, and they love everything I do because, well, they're my friends. I love them, and, you know, pat on the back for them, but in the classic words of U2, I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
And I'm an English major, so I should have English-ey friends that are like "Oh yeah, that T.S. Eliot man, he's a great guy," and stuff but most of them are like "Well, I'm pretty sure that the plums are symbolic for Jesus and we should sympathize with him because the wheelbarrow is red and red is anger and there are chickens and chickens represent Jesus." Or something.
And then I read about the modernists, and truth is, I'm a sucker for modernists, and they all moved to Paris and became BFFs with Ezra Pound and they just talked about Gatsby and punctuation and the old man and the sea, and even Picasso hung around for a bit, and it's just cool that these writers could sit around a talk like the artists they were and they could support each other and give feedback and help one another get published. [Seriously, Ezra Pound got EVERYONE published. I mean, this guy...]
Thing is, I like it here at YWS, but I often feel I'm on the older side of the site's population, and I just have weird syntax, which I think freaks people out...
TL;DRI guess what I mean is I'm not sure how I'm supposed to find my contemporaries, you know? Writing can be hard on your own, we know this, that's why we're here, but I'm not really looking for someone to critique my grammar or structure but to listen and to discuss ideas, not just my own, but theirs. I think seeing other people succeed with their art is the best inspiration, but I've just never had "writer friends."
Hmph. :B
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